Alternative Solutions for Anxiety

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBrian looks like he has the perfect life. He has a well-paying job, nice house, great wife, and two amazing kids. But his anxiety was like a dark cloud that threatened to ruin everything. He struggled with anxiety and debilitating panic attacks for years. He often isolated at home and work, spending a lot of […]

Increasing Your Chances of Quitting Tobacco For Good

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAre you or a loved one struggling with tobacco use? Do you want to quit smoking and don’t know how to start? Have you tried to quit before and been unsuccessful? Worried that vaping is not a great alternative? Nicotine has been proven to be a highly addictive substance. According to the Diagnostic Statistic Manual […]

Is Your Teen Overwhelmed? Help Them Learn Stress Management

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDid you know that 1 in 3 teens will meet the diagnosis criteria for Anxiety by the age of 18? Many teens are faced with trying to balance school expectations,  get into college, deal with pressures from family and friends, and plan for who they want to become as adults. Often times they are managing […]

Pets and People

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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe relationship between pets and people is a long and detailed topic to discuss. Our animal companions are with us in a variety of ways. There are the animals that work such as herding livestock,  guarding a place, police work, sniffing contraband, guide dogs, therapy animals, the list goes on. Then there are our companion […]

Nobody Wants A Dyke Daughter

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn celebration of LGBT Pride Month, a brave teenage shares her story about coming out to her dad and offers tips to parents: Nobody Wants A Dyke Daughter That was basically what my father said when I told him I’m gay. He did use somewhat nicer words, but his message was clear: nobody wants a […]

Why EMDR for Therapy?

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith so many options for therapy, why EMDR?  Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy approach that incorporates protocols to help clients to reprocess emotionally activated memories into appropriate memory networks by connecting with adaptive information. A client presents with a trauma that is causing intrusive thoughts and disruptive emotions. The therapist will […]

An Alternative Way to Resolve Conflict

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Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople deal with conflict most every day. Many of them turn to litigation and the use of the legal system to resolve disputes. But the court system costs too much, takes too much time and involves uncertainty, loss of privacy and an adversarial win-lose mentality. Frequently, the outcomes from the judicial system do not work […]

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples?

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe foundation of Emotion-focused therapy is based on the work of Drs. Leslie Greenberg and Robert Elliot.   While their focus was looking at the emotions of the person, their therapeutic intervention was designed for individual or one-on-one therapy. Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFTC) was born out of the 1980s work and research of Dr. Sue Johnson with Dr. Greenberg.   EFTC […]